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Aug 30, 2014 · A comedy about a woman who has two lovers and a man who chases her. This was the only silent film directed by Orson Welles, who also starred in it with Joseph Cotten and Virginia Nicolson.
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Too Much Johnson is a 1938 American silent comedy film written and directed by Orson Welles. An unfinished film component of a stage production, it was made three years before Welles directed Citizen Kane, but it was never publicly screened.
Between those modest items the 23-year-old prodigy turned to a more ambitious project: Too Much Johnson, a 1938 farce based on portions of an 1891 play by William Gillette, a prominent American dramatist and actor.
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Mar 12, 2021 · March 12, 2021. Orson Welles’ long-believed lost footage shot for the 1938 stage comedy Too Much Johnson was preserved by the George Eastman Museum and first shown to the delight of cineastes at an Italian film festival in 2013. Now, the black and white footage can be viewed online at eastman.org/too-much-johnson or Vimeo.
A lawyer (Joseph Cotten) having an affair with a married woman is discovered by her husband, who does not actually see him, but obtains a torn photo of the top half of the lawyer's face. The husband chases the lawyer across the rooftops and the streets of New York.
Too Much Johnson streaming: where to watch online? Currently you are able to watch "Too Much Johnson" streaming on The Roku Channel, Tubi TV, Pluto TV for free with ads or buy it as download on Amazon Video. It is also possible to rent "Too Much Johnson" on Amazon Video online.
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Nov 26, 2013 · News of the rediscovery and preservation of sixty-six minutes of footage shot by Orson Welles in 1938 made me both eager and skeptical.
